comics read, 08/26/13

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Uncanny X-Force #2 – Humphries, Garney
More set-up in this one. I still don’t know what particular grudge Psylocke has against Spiral, although probably the wiki would tell me. I continue to enjoy Storm in this, I enjoy Psylocke using her powers besides telepathy/psychicness, and still want to know more about Fantomex and the multiple aspects of him that are now walking around, although presumably that’s back in the previous volume of the book, which I’m still working on.

I like Garney’s art, too. It doesn’t wow me like, say, Esad Ribic’s did in that one Uncanny X-Force arc, but there were multiple panels I went back to look at again. There’s lots of cool women in action in this issue - in fact, the only guy that got fighty to do at all was Puck, and he didn’t do much – and Garney does a good job making the action enjoyable to look at without sexing up the women involved.

I think the Spiral’s drug dealings and the return of Lucas Bishop are what the plot is supposed to be centered around, but neither of those stories has moved along far enough yet for me to make any judgment about them.

So I don’t love it yet, but I like it plenty enough to keep reading.

Young Avengers #2 – Gillen, McKelvie
I don’t know that I can say much about this that hasn’t already been said. It’s got more cleverness on single pages than most books have in an entire issue, and the art is engaging and clear with a deceptive simplicity about it, just daring you not to take it seriously.

I was a little sad that we didn’t see Kate or America this issue, but the travails of Billy’s spell gone awry and Loki’s unlikely rescue kept me too interested to miss the off-panel characters much.

I’m a little unclear on what’s up with this Loki – he’s adult Loki in a teenager’s body, hanging out with teenage Avengers for fun? I think that’s what I heard. Regardless, here and now he’s hilarious and perfect and I love him.

MOAR PLZ.

Thor: God of Thunder #5 – Aaron, Ribic
For some reason I thought this was the end of this arc. Woe, for it is not. This is very much a mid-arc issue, with a lot of plotty threads whose ends I don’t know yet and whose beginnings I had a little trouble recalling. Eh.

I’m now confused (as perhaps I am meant to be?) why Gorr is still alive when Thor apparently killed him in that cave. Also, Gorr talks like Thor changed the whole direction of Gorr’s mission that day, which I don’t understand (yet?) either.

Basically, not a lot happened in this issue, and what did happen I had trouble figuring out the significance of. I think I’ll probably need to reread this once the entire arc is up on MU.

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